102 Quotes by Edwin Catmull

Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.

The Pixar name means more than any other name. It's very important to us to keep that name at a high level.

I did like 'Despicable Me.' I thought it was quite good.